JACKS, Philip (J.) 1954-

PERSONAL: Born June 10, 1954, in St. Louis, MO; son of Wilbert and Libby C. Jacks; married Jill Heisler (a graphic artist), June 10, 1990; children: Gregory, Maya. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Cornell University, B.A. (cum laude), 1976; University of Chicago, Ph.D. (with honors), 1985. Hobbies and other interests: Carpentry, photography, building restoration.

ADDRESSES: Home—5330 North 27th St., Arlington, VA 22207. Offıce—Department of Fine Arts and Art History, George Washington University, 801 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20052; fax: 202-994-8657. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor, 1988-92, associate professor of art history, 1993-96, Morse junior faculty fellow, 1990-91; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, visiting associate professor of architectural history, urbanism, and theory, 1996-97; George Washington University, Washington, DC, assistant professor, 1997-99, associate professor of fine arts and art history, 2000—. Guest speaker at other institutions, including Smithsonian Institution, University of Ghent, and Catholic University of America. Painter, with solo exhibitions in Ithaca, NY, and Chicago, IL; participant in art and architecture tours.

MEMBER: Society of Architectural History (member of board of directors of Latrobe chapter, 1999—).

AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright fellow in Italy, 1981-82; Samuel H. Kress institutional fellow at Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1981-83; fellow in Italy, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 1987, 1996; F. W. Hilles Awards, Whitney Humanities Center, 1992, 1995; grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-94, and Getty Foundation, 1996.

WRITINGS:

The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: TheOrigins of Rome in Renaissance Thought, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1993.

(Editor and contributor) Vasari's Florence: Artists andLiterati at the Medicean Court, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(With William Caferro) The Spinelli of Florence:Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 2001.

(Editor and author of introduction and notes) Giorgio Vasari, Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, new abridged edition, Random House (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca, edited by Jeryldene Wood, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Arte lombarda, and Architectura.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Lion and the Leonessa: The Building of Renaissance Brescia under Venetian Dominion, 1512-1603, a monograph.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

History: Review of New Books, winter, 2003, Margery A. Ganz, review of The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family, p. 77.

Renaissance Quarterly, summer, 1995, Charles L. Stinger, review of The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought, p. 377.